GEOS-Chem 12.1.0

GEOS-Chem 12.1.0
Released 26 Nov 2018

This release contains several new features as well as fixes for issues discovered after the GEOS-Chem 12.0.3 release, including:

(1) Budget diagnostics
(2) Anthropogenic PM2.5 dust source
(3) GEOS-Chem restart file updates
(4) Updates and fixes for the CEDS anthropogenic emissions inventory
(5) HEMCO fixes
(6) Fix mass conservation in non-local PBL mixing
(7) Allow for SZA to 98 degrees when getting photolysis rates
(8) FlexGrid Stage 1: Use HEMCO to read met fields
(9) Add support for continuous integration with TravisCI
(10) Added netCDF diagnostics for several specialty simulations
(11) Convert input data for RRTMG from bpch to netCDF for input via HEMCO
(12) Add fixes for seasonal scale factors in CH4 simulations
(13) Move Fast-JX .dat files from the geos-chem-unittestrepository to gcgrid/ExtData
(14) Update HEMCO configuration file for the tagged CO simulation
(15) Structural updates to facilitate interfacing GEOS-Chem into WRF
(16) Structural updates to facilitate interfacing GEOS-Chem into GEOS-5
(17) Fix masking bug to correctly apply anthropogenic emissions in GCHP
(18) Remove erroneous 180 degree longitude shift in APEI regridding for GCHP
(19) Move GCHP run directory creation from GEOS-Chem Unit Tester to GCHP repository

For more information about this release. please see:
http://wiki.geos-chem.org/GEOS-Chem_12#12.1.0

Also please see the GEOS-Chem online manual at:
http://manual.geos-chem.org

This release is compatible with GCHP. See the GCHP online manual for more information:
http://wiki.seas.harvard.edu/geos-chem/index.php/Getting_Started_With_GCHP